Ruby Bridges, the first African-American to attend a white elementary school in the deep South, 1960
There’s something about this photograph that speaks more than just history. Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old girl, escorted by federal marshals, is walking down those school steps like a warrior stepping off the battlefield. Only her battlefield wasn’t marked by bullets or bayonets, but by jeers and hatred from those who clung to a segregated world.
The marshals, dressed in somber suits, are there to protect her, not from gunfire, but from the idea that a single Black child could challenge the status quo of an entire society.
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